Good riddance Huntley

[Bertiebiscuit]

So the child murderer Ian Huntley is dead, finally. Pity it took so long, i hope he died in pain and terror, and a medal to whoever did it. Karma sometimes works.

Hopefully knowing he went out in agony & terrifed out of his mind gives them some peace rather than a peaceful death of old age.

But he didn’t, we can’t pretend he did. He was struck on the back of the head and got brain damage, there was no time for terror or pain. It was immediate.

I hope he didn’t. As a civilised nation, we are supposed to be better than the brutal murderers we put in prison.

Because by every metric, it is more expensive to put a person on death row than it is to keep them in prison for the rest of their life.

I feel the same. I would not waste time thinking about him.

Thank you. He was caught quite quickly although he hadn’t committed any comparable crime there were some (fairly minor) things on his record - theft I think - but they had his DNA anyway, so no long drawn out case.

He was jailed for thirty years almost exactly twenty years ago. He’ll be in his early seventies when he gets out.

Her baby would have been twenty one next month. I have never forgotten either of them.

You’re a fucking disgrace.

Handwringers? You think believing that a prisoner should not be able to murder someone-anyone- while in prison is handwringing??? Jesus fucking Christ!!!!!!!

There are no heroes in this story, but I’m glad he’s dead and I hope it was painful and frightening.

The fact that some of you are putting a rapist and murderer on a pedestal is not only. revolting but utterly shameful.

Only because criminals have endless appeals. You make the system unnecessarily expensive and burdensome, and then use that as an excuse. Honestly it’s so tiresome

I believe this article covers the crimes of the man @Bertiebiscuit would give a medal to.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-60707696

Disgraceful.

Sick.

Again - sick.

I hope its more ignorance of what his crimes were
Athlough its easy enough to google.

You want to give medal to a murdere and rapist?

^This 100%, very insightful post. The families of Jessica and Holly are refusing to comment. As is all of Soham. I do hope they can now be left alone, which is clearly what they want.

Exactly I mean I don’t think anyone would want further details on what has already been revealed

I agree i wont loae any sleep over Huntley dying
But wether posters like it or not the prison service hss a duty of care towards prisoners even the most Heinous ones
It would be utter carnage if prisoners were left to run riot.

Some PPs on this thread really don’t seem to care about this vile murderer’s victims’ or their families, who are having to hear or read such comments.

I'd debate that point with you but I know it it would be utterly pointless and would derail the thread.

I understand what you are saying and agree to an extent. What happened to your friend is dreadful. And as awful as this case.
I never thought of the families getting so much coverage because they were from an affluent background and I'm sure their families would have preferred not to have so much intrusion.
It was very shocking that two girls disappeared together and that it was a person of trust who killed them and the amount of time they were missing in the school holidays.
It's always abohrent when a child is murdered.

I doubt that the parents of Holly and Jessica will be visiting the prison to thank the person that murdered him.
Doubt that they will get any relief from this. Won’t help their grieving. As for closure, the death of one’s own child can never be an event that happened in the past, it is always there.
For the rest of our lives.

Agree. I don't think he was any better than Huntley, to be honest.

He spent 20+ years knowing this would probably happen one day. I’ll neither rejoice or shed any tears. Would think the same about the person who did it to him.